Can postage costs be grouped by Qty 1-5 when selling many of an item?

[paradroid-85]

I have over 50 of an item and I want to put them on eBay, but the postage for 1 to 5 of them is the same, so I want it to work that out.

A small parcel is £3.35, so if someone orders 2, it should be £3.35 postage.  If someone orders 10 it should be £6.70.

Can this be done?  I've only ever sold single items before, so I have no clue how to do this, or if it's possible.

[style_wise]

The short answer is, No. It is an awkward situation for honest Sellers who only want to charge actual postage costs. Personally what I would do in your example is make each additional item 38p more postage cost (so that if they buy 10 their postage charge is £6.77).

To use a simpler example, my International Tracked Large Letter is £11.99, and to buy 2 items is the same price. but I charge an additional 99p for each additional. This is because when they buy 3, the International LL jumps to £13.99 (1.99 extra divided by 2 extra items = 99p each). If they buy so many that the Postage gets too high, I just refund the difference.

Does anyone have a more elegant solution?

[paradroid-85]

Thanks, I'll do that if no-one else has a better way.  I noticed a listing earlier doing that, and I was wondering if that was why.

[maggie44d]

I recently had the same with 2 items costing small parcel postage to the same buyer, and both could have gone together as one parcel for the price of one small parcel. Personally I would have refunded the 2nd cost if I could have.

Excuse my ignorance of the ever evolving ebay T&C's but if someone was to buy several items from a seller, if they added them to the shopping basket then paid for them, would you be able to post the items as one package and one postage cost?

I've only ever had a buyer buy multiple items 3 times the first I could do it via an invoice, the second was some years ago and I'm sure it was done via the shopping basket.